LG’s newest phone is the V60 ThinQ and instead of folding, this one lets you choose how many screens you want to use. While one of the more prolific phone-makers, LG has struggled in recent years to secure market share and this has often led to the company working on new and novel designs.
LG is not adverse to going out on a limb with its smartphones even though the results rarely seem to be worth the investment. One of the more famous examples of this was the launch of the modular LG G5 smartphone. Essentially, the G5 let the user replace parts of the phone with others to increase or add features. However, the phone was not met with wide praise or significant sales, and since then LG has tended to focus its premium phones on either the camera experience, or the display. In some cases, more than one display.
LG’s latest premium phone does away with the idea that you need to fold a display by letting the user add an additional screen only when they need one. Basically, the LG V60 ThinQ is a traditional smartphone. However, customers can buy a case equipped with a second screen that’s largely identical to the first. Once connected, the user then has access to both screens, in a similar way to the experience offered by a foldable phone when unfolded.
More Of An LG Refinement Than A Revolution
This is not actually the first LG phone to offer this type of experience as the company previously launched the G8X ThinQ in 2019. That phone was almost identical in the sense that it also employed the same accessory approach for adding another screen. However, the new phone comes with many of the usual boosts in specs and performance, and as importantly, also improves on the two-screen experience with greater software support for Android apps. In other words, the two screens are expected to work with even more apps than on the previous model. The battery capacity has also increased from 4,000 mAh on the GX8 ThinQ to 5,000 mAh. Considering the phone powers both displays, this is likely to result in the two-screen experience lasting even longer this time around.
Due to this not being LG’s first dual-screen rodeo, it remains to be seen if this design is going to suddenly make LG a more relevant company within the mobile space. However, it does act as an alternative to the range of foldable phones that are increasingly coming through and that’s important. As this is primarily a traditional phone, it won’t suffer with many of the same problems facing foldables right now, including durability. This is while still offering an experience that’s somewhat comparable to what foldable phones promise. Eventually, there’s unlikely to be room in the market for a device that you have to buy and attach a second screen to as foldable phones will take over. That said, while companies continue to work through the foldable teething problems, LG’s V60 ThinQ might prove to be a useful alternative.
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